Strauss, Johann II (& Miroslaw Koennemann, Jacques Offenbach, Konradin Kreutzer, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Charles Gounod): Gruß aus Baden-Baden!
| Composer: Miloslaw Koennemann Jacques Offenbach Konradin Kreutzer Jean-Baptiste Arban Johann Strauss II Charles Gounod  MusicWeb Int. |
 EAN: 7393338106227
| Performer: Matthias Höfs Baden-Baden PhO Werner Stiefel Back cover |
CDS 1062-2 Miloslaw Koennemann (1826-1890): Der Fremersberg (1853); Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880): La Princesse de Trébizonde - overture (1869); Konradin Kreutzer (1780-1849): Das Nachtlager von Grenada – overture (1834); Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889); Fantasie and Variations on Carnival of Venice; Johann Strauss II (1825-1899): Ballsträusschen Op.380 (1878); Lob der Frauen Op.315 (1866-67); Charles Gounod (1818-1893): La colombe – entr’acte (1860). Matthias Höfs, trumpet (Arben); Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Werner Stiefel.
This is fun! Miloslav Koenneman was a composer and military musician who came to Baden-Baden around 1850. He composed this very charming piece of music -a little like Hans Christian Lumbye. It is performed outdoors every year in Baden-Baden and the audience is meant to sing along in the hymn in the end of the piece -like Pomp and Circumstance. Even Mark Twain loved it -arriving tired in Baden-Baden around the time when Koenneman was there and the author writes that the piece "delighted me, warmed me, moved me, stirred me, uplifted me, enraptured me." So this is a must -also for the tender and melancholy Gounod piece in the end of the CD. You will love this one.
Review from Musicweb International
- Der Fremersberg
- La Princesse de Trébizonde - overture
- Das Nachtlager von Grenada – overture
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) - Fantasie and Variations on Carnival of Venice
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) - Ballsträusschen Op.380
- Lob der Frauen Op.315
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) - La colombe – entr’acte
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